QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Dr CHALMERS (Rankin—Treasurer) (14:26): It will help them, with their combined tax cut of $50 a week, with the cost of living. If the honourable member really cared about the cost-of-living pressures that people are confronting, he would have voted for tax cuts. The consequence of the position that the shadow Treasurer talked the honourable member into is that a Liberal Party came in here, given the opportunity to vote for lower income taxes, and instead voted for higher income taxes.

That's why I'm told that there's a bit of chirp on the back bench—because people don't think this is a good idea. And we don't think it's a good idea either. We think— The SPEAKER: The Treasurer will pause.

There's a point of order. Dr Chalmers interjecting— The SPEAKER: Has the Treasurer completed his answer? Yes.